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6.Anatomy of Flowering Plants
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Explain the process of secondary growth in roots.
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Solution

$\rightarrow$ In the dicot root, the vascular cambium is completely secondary in origin. It originates from the tissue located just below the phloem bundles, a portion of pericycle tissue, above the protoxylem forming a complete and continuous wavy ring, which later becomes circular.
$\rightarrow$ Further events are similar to those already described above for a dicotyledon stem.
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